What are these? apt mascots for the Prize? https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03756-w
Re: imported contexts: JKR cribbed nagini from JRK?
Edit3: couldn't get coords for this accent: not very Scottish (but went into native Glaswegian when he got to that point), slightly more south london than west American, a bit Australian? https://youtu.be/IUJMyTJ9gyI
Maybe CH need to import warring asiatic mascots (or cohentanukis) in order for the culture to get to the next level of TP transcendence* :)
[JP have OCD for tradition in spades but don't revert to sealscript when quoting Mencius -- ring me when you do find a countereg]
*eg, most ignobels per capita
TIGR mencius was in the sealscript era! (but what about selkiescript? that'd be as good name for a metamorphic language)
I'd forgotten about the disinfectant thing — IIRC there wasn't a shortage precisely because the [factory-]schnapps manufacturers stepped up immediately. Doing well by doing good, as it were.
I'd nominate the Platypus as mascot.
NCF agrees with some HN commentators; one could hope –if there is to be an implosion— for a similarly violence-free one?
(my model is that MSG was the first "new man" who had actually been born in the Union, and his generation was therefore much less accommodating than previous ones had been of a system that, by the time you were close to the Center of it, turned out to work nothing like they'd told you it was supposed to while you were growing up)
EDIT: also, I'll gladly prove Washington, like Lenin, was a mushroom if anyone feels like sending me a Halliburton full of USD 1 bills.
EDIT2: note that most of that debt is likely also geriatrically held (or maybe in trust, but those have be distributed to someone living at their formation, which tends to punt at most 2 generations?)
EDIT3: note on deaths of despair: I'm told that the 90s were not the best of times for the weaker members of society; one might hope that anything similar would not be as great a step function as it was then.
EDIT4: I don't think new foundations of social legitimacy are necessarily required; wider distribution of benefits of growth should suffice. But in the Old Country, "We all do better when we all do better", the foundation of the New Deal, would now be pinko commie talk. (NCF's suggestion to me smacks of attempting to reconvert losers back into clueless?)
* friends of Hugin & Munin, however, are rare
EDIT5: wrt 天命, could 樂 be translated as "vibes"?
Didn't intend the NCF accent thing to be a red herring. If he wasn't conscious of his own accent shifts in realtime, maybe his ideological oscillations need to be examined?
[compare total orders and equivalence relations; both are reflexive and transitive...]
EDIT [Re: VIU, compare LDB's complaints of betrayal. A school friend once noted that his mother only watched movies about two people who love each other but can't marry because they have the wrong colour dots on their foreheads; after that I couldn't help but notice all the US movies with the same plot, just with implicit, not explicit, dots. Courier is a late soviet wrong-colour-dot movie]
[If patched with a reproducible, consistent public goods management model that decategorifies labor (e.g. type I labor & type II(+) labor becomes incomparable) that would be the real End Of History? -> how would promoting losers to psychopaths fit]
Is it that CH has no need for movies, that attracted Graham Greene so? Did he move to CH because the arch-American [Psycho] Kane-Limes-Welles ("expelled from CH academia") denounced that cuckooclockandbrotherlylove blasphemy (in favor of the Hobbesian-Machiavellian one) in the court of the People (and got away with it)
Good Q — this will take a bit of reflection. And I do think Quisats Haderach-wise incomparability (as in BNW?) has a good bit to do with it: as in "What Do People Do All Day", « à chacun son truc » is the order of the day. (and for psycopaths, playing the éminence grise* is the done thing — at least among my generation ... according to Android's autocomplete many, or at least some, people here are looking for influencers, but yet I never hear about them from my younger friends and acquaintances)
Lagniappe: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Welles#:~:text=Roosevelt...
* some less grey, acknowledged as patron or schirmherr, but some can really only be spotted by either SIGINT or by Deep Throat-style forensic accounting.
It could have the side effect of turning you obssessive towards (Jane-Ven?) Jacobs-Rao's weird/hypernormal/riverian trifecta (rather than the psychopath/clueless/loser one)
I surmised while wondering how to map those to 守破離/三殺法 (note a passing resemblance to the learning/doing or lion/fox split -- & note further that RTT is written as a healthy (well, naturally!) imbecile)
Limes was supposed to be Harry Lime but I guess I wanted to leave the door open for boundaries..
*Like geohot (see his blog), who is one of the certainly pubbutlowsocsepdegfromhere ones who could be called an influencer (imho neither taleb nor gwern [hello there Graham Greene fan!] are imbecilic enough, elon.. close to being imbecilic enough)
> "the middle class, the only class that produces value in society" —GFH
Spoken like a twue member of the upper middle class!
守破離 has two paths to the top of the mountain (like hard vs soft martial arts?): if you start weird, you have to pass through hypernormal to get to riverian; but if you start hypernormal, you have to pass through weird to get there?
As to 三殺法 (and as a hypernormal) I'd call vibe-posting as paying attention to the sword, and academic-crafting as paying attention to the technique, leaving ??? (tbd) as paying attention to the spirit...
RTT? Not Rohan Telephone & Telegraph, presumably?
[and a more cynical view as to why Android's autocomplete might keep attempting to pop up "Influencerinnen" is that they're paying for placement ... or at least easy on the eyes]
EDIT: also GFH: "If you can’t shut [government] down, you don’t control it."
For someone technical, he has way more confidence in "rewrite from scratch" than I have had (except as a cynical intra-org political play) since my mid teens.
For someone avowedly middle class, he has way more belief that executives are supposed to behave as if they owned what they've been appointed to manage than I've ever had.
(as with the Psmiths, are these basic confusions over ownership and management so common these days? My wife got a Tiktok [pedantry: a Reels] a while ago of Musk claiming there are Lords and Peasants at GM but not at Tesla, and we both got a good laugh out of it — yeah, right, let's juuuust look at the shares and see how difficult it may be to find a lord and many peasants)
Oops I meant that GFH occasionally gives off vibes of being a healthy imbecile, that I'd be ok with his (he's not wholly comfortable with it tho?) influencer status.
Rikki Tikki Tavi
Re: the dichotomies, i'll need to give a gramme (using quadrants, if not truthtables) as well, so more TK
Edit: a daggerly wakeup, guys! Sorry! I'll be more respectful next time
L: the zhong/qing dichotomy within the various sealscript forms
NCF: for accents, I'll have to listen at 1x (I normally listen at 2x or close to, which tends to turn all accents into Mickey Mouse)
But a priori I'd generally say: show me someone who doesn't code switch, and I'll show you someone who's always been unmistakably a member of the dominant subculture.
(rummaging through NCF's biography* it's no wonder we come to different treatments for the same diagnosis; he wants to convert the losers [back?] to clueless by infusing them with national spirit; I'd wish the losers could become psychopaths by having [per Aristotle... or Jefferson] some business of their own which they could mind. Regardless of which one of us is correct in general, if one believes in late soviet America, then I'd think one might think that attempting to Tinkerbell [in whom the panto audience must believe] one's way out of it is likely to be as effective as it had been for the soviets, or at least among those among them who hadn't been athletes, scholars, and Komsomol members)
Lagniappe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JXiMkbFFQT4
* in particular, according to en.wp his church attendance is motivated by exactly the same consideration as N,1er's.
EDIT: 键盘四寶: Ctl,X,C, and V?
(I'm impressed by the dual-tone bell system!)
EDIT: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJaMCKVOFJM#t=305s
incidentally, the "vibraphone" is also a metallophone, just a few thousand years more recent: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXjfvEcAV6w